After serious injury, women may fare worse than men by some measures, a new study suggests.
The study was not designed to find reasons for the disparities it documented.
Clinicians have biases they may be unaware of, Ray said. They should explore how those biases influence how they treat patients, particularly women of color. They should also ask what their institutions are doing to identify and fix biases, she added. As for discharge disparities, Stey said, studies suggest that women are likelier to be primary household caregivers,"so when they get sick, they're often more likely to end up going to rehabilitation facilities and not be able to go home, because there's no one to help take care of them.
She urged policymakers to grapple with the questions:"How do we keep people in their homes longer? And how do we enable and support their family members so that they can take care of their loved ones?" Stey reported receiving the American College of Surgeons' C. James Carrico, MD, FACS, Faculty Research Fellowship for the Study of Trauma and Critical Care and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Research and Education Fund Scholarship Award. Ray reported no relevant financial disclosures.
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